The first Latino to represent California in the US Senate, Alex Padilla, says he is “a progressive problem solver”. In January 2021, he was named a senator to take over from then Vice President Ka

Son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Samuel Rodriguez has his church in Sacramento, California, and according to a BBC News report from 2018, was the first Latino gospel to participate in a president inaug

Janet Murguía was born in 1960 and stood out as a civil rights activist in the United States. She is President and CEO of “UnidosUS” (formerly “National Council of La Raza”, NCLR), a non-prof

Our profile of the week is Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard, the first Mexican-American congresswoman elected to California's 40th congressional district, who announced her retirement late Decembe

Isabella Casillas Guzman serves as the 27th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and was sworn in on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Administrator Guzman represents the more than 3

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, one of the four children of Cuban immigrants who came to America in 1956. Both of his parents earned their way to the middle class by working humbl